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fre:ac is now also available packaged as an AppImage for Linux systems.

AppImages are self-contained packages that can be downloaded and run on most Linux distributions without the need to install any additional software. Just mark the downloaded AppImage as executable and run it.

fre:ac is now also available as a Snap for Linux systems supporting the Snappy package infrastructure.

This makes fre:ac available in the software directories of many popular Linux distributions and simplifies installation for their users. In most cases, fre:ac will show up with a simple search for freac or audio converter in these directories.

The Linux version of fre:ac is now available as a Flatpak package on Flathub.

This increases visibility of fre:ac for Linux users and simplifies the installation process. If your Linux system is already setup for Flatpak, installing fre:ac is as easy as clicking Install on its Flathub page.

Thanks everyone who was involved in getting fre:ac packaged as a Flatpak and published on Flathub!

fre:ac v1.1 Alpha 20181201a

Saturday, 01 December 2018 18:16

fre:ac v1.1 Alpha 20181201a has been released and is now available for download!

This release adds a Notifier extension that can play a sound or display a message when a conversion is finished which was an often requested feature.

Select options can now be specified ignoring case (e.g. VBR and vbr are now interchangeable)

Fixes for arguments parsing on non-Windows systems

Other improvements

Added option to switch stereo channels in Channel Converter DSP

Added support for accent colors on macOS Mojave

Greatly improved UI looks and behavior on Haiku

Respect GDK_SCALE environment variable on X11 systems

Extension component names are now translatable

Various bug fixes

Fixed crash when using the channel converter to convert mono to stereo

Fixed output file writing when using FAAC in SuperFast mode

Fixed encoding mono MP3s with LAME

Fixed issues writing MP4 files when <directory> pattern is used

Improved performance when reading large MP4/M4A files

Upgrading to the 20181201a release is strongly recommended for users of previous alpha or snapshot releases. All users of the stable release of fre:ac are encouraged to try this alpha instead. Please report issues on the GitHub issue tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

fre:ac v1.1 Alpha 20180913 has been released and is now available for download!

This is the first release to integrate the SuperFast multi-threaded encoding technology into the main development branch. This feature is still marked as experimental and may be enabled on the Resources page of the configuration dialog.

Other changes in this release are:

added support for configuring all codecs in the command line interface

improved UI adjustment to translated text widths

improved HiDPI support

Upgrading to the 20180913 release is recommended for users of previous alpha or snapshot releases. All users of the stable release of fre:ac are encouraged to try this alpha instead. Please report issues on the GitHub issue tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

A third preview release of the SuperFastmulti-threaded codec drivers for fre:ac is now available. These components use multiple codec instances in parallel to provide faster processing on systems with multiple CPU cores.

This update adds support for the LAME MP3 encoder and fixes some minor issues with the AAC encoders.